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Field Visit
Date May 1968
Event ID 1175726
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1175726
NM 854 438. On the level summit of a rocky ridge 90 m NE of Castle Coeffin there are the last vestiges of what has probably been a stone-walled fort. Easy access to the summit can be gained across gentle grassy slopes on the NE, but on all other sides steep or vertical rock-faces 7.6 m in height afford strong natural protection.
A sub-rectangular area measuring about 80 m from NE to SW by 36 m transversely has been defended by a single stone wall, the mutilated remains of which can still be seen on the NE, where it was drawn in a shallow arc across the spine of the ridge, barring the line of easiest access. Here it survives for a distance of 33 m as a ragged stony bank 3·7 m in average width and 0·5 m high, a gap 2·4 m wide near its mid-point presumably indicating the position of the entrance. No traces of a wall have been preserved along the flanks or at the SW end of the ridge, but whether this is because the defences have been completely destroyed on those sides, or because the strong natural protection was deemed sufficient, cannot be determined without excavation. The whole of the interior appears to have been subject to intensive cultivation in comparatively recent times.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1968
